The media have been at best negligent in reporting on the economic issues at hand. At worst, they have been complicit.
The causes of the housing bubble and meltdown aren't a secret. The identities of the people that have been calling for investigation and oversight aren't secret. The names of the people that have blocked every attempt to address the problem for the last 5 or 6 years aren't secret.
Why does the news media consistently accept the bald lies of the people responsible? Why don't they bother telling people the truth?
Does anyone really believe that if the roles of the parties were reversed there wouldn't be serious investigation?
Nope, sorry. Those sensors aren't looking for magnets, they are looking for iron.
The loops of wire are big air-cored inductors, they form part of a LC resonator with a specific frequency. When a chunk of iron gets near the loop, the quality of the inductor changes, which changes the resonant frequency.
Yeah, I do think that local school boards should be permitted to teach lies. They should be able to teach whatever the hell they want, in their district. They should be accountable only to the parents that elect them.
Hoyle makes testable predictions. Have the tests been done? Debunking has no place in science.
They all advertise longevity, and they all lie, the legal way; with statistics!
The whole Barracuda line has an advertised MTBF of 750,000 hours (yes, 85+ years, really) and an annualized failure rate of 0.34%. That is actually pretty much typical of hard drive advertising. Most people don't have the balls to advertise product lifetimes more than about twice as long as the basic technology has been in around, but hard drive makers don't even blink.
Of course, MTBF and AFR are actually technical terms, with very specific meanings that are wildly different from what you'd think they meant if you didn't already know better. I wonder if the marketing department is using the confusion between the proper and assumed meanings of those terms to, ahem, "let" people think that drives are more reliable than they really are...
What is the big deal? Can allowing local schools and local teachers to set their own policies be worse than centralized control? Say a handful of schools (or even a handful of states) taught intelligent design over evolution (or FSM over evolution). Would that really be the end of the world?
I think that people who get all worked up over this are 1) too optimistic about the ability of schools to shape children, and 2) too fond of the same centralized control that has destroyed the education system in this country.
There have been no major performance improvements from that direction for the last few years, and probably won't be any more without a major breakthrough in semiconductors.
Moore's law is about transistor counts, and shows no real signs of stopping. Every 18 to 24 months, we double the number of transistors on a given wafer/die. The transistion to 64 bit CPUs used a generation or two of those extra transistors, but we aren't likely to move to 128 bits soon. We are already pretty deep into the diminishing-returns curve for on-die cache.
What is left to consume those transistors?
More cores. Lots more cores. If you replace your CPU every 2 years, you can pretty much bet that each one you buy for the next decade or so will have twice as many cores as the one it is replacing.
And if developers and compilers get good at managing parallel code (and they have no choice in this), you can expect core counts to go up even faster than doubling ever couple of years.
When I need a laugh, I turn mine on and ask it to give me directions to places around my city, or directions to some of the small towns nearby.
On the other hand, the GPS box isn't a person, and it certainly isn't higher than me in a military chain of command. The real problem, as the summary mentions, is micromanagement. The guys on the ground need information so that they can make their own decisions, and they need us (yes, us, the people who aren't there) to back them up when they make reasonable decisions, even if they are sometimes wrong.
After you've flipped through dozens of inboxes and home directories as part of your job, you know how pointless it is to do it for fun. People are boring. They have boring mail. They have boring files.
You might want to read the book, rather than that very short summary of it. You are right that it is essentially unfalsifiable, making it not-science. (Note that most history and anthropology are similarly not-science).
To quickly address some of the issues you mentioned:
There are essentially no groups left on the earth where the split mind is "normal", but there are isolated cases. Some forms of schizophrenia, for example, can be considered as very similar to the split mind. One big reason they are gone today is that the societies they could survive in are gone, replaced with our familiar conscious societies. Another reason is that they were regularly hunted down and killed (many examples in the old testament).
I think you underestimate the quantity and quality of very ancient literature. Take a look at the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature: http://www-etcsl.orient.ox.ac.uk/ Some of it is quite good, and most of it is very, very alien to modern readers. There are plenty of examples from other cultures, I just use that as an example because of my interest in cuneiform writings.
The hallucinations involved weren't like the impression of a drug trip that you see on TV, and they weren't random. Think of it like your intuition having a personality and shouting commands in your "ear". More like Baltar's visitors (from the new Battlestar Galactica series) than like Reefer Madness.
In that context, the hallucinations can be a good thing. What if the voice tells you the right time to strike? Or if it tells you to duck because it noticed a sabretooth tiger hunting you while you hunted the mammoth? But even that is misleading, because it assumes someone with our modern narritive/conscious mind with the addition of voices from the reasoning/analyzing portion of our brain.
Look, it's really not that complicated: radiation increases the risk of cancer and birth defects, at any dose. The mechanisms are understood, and there have been tens of thousands of experiments confirming that. Trying to argue that this isn't the case is simply insane. And it doesn't matter what kind of radiation it is.
You are claiming LNT as fact, when it is actually just an assumption.
The mechanisms are NOT well understood at all, and there haven't even been dozens of useful experiments on long term / low dosage, maybe not even one, certainly not tens of thousands.
Enforceability of contracts is what makes the GPL work. If the GPL world says it doesn't work when it's someone else's license, their projects are in deep trouble. And to think, this whole mess could be solved by simply removing that stupid relicense crap which has almost no practical implication other than GPL-ego.
No, no, no, no. This is completely 100% wrong.
The GPL does not in any way depend on contracts. The GPL depends on copyright law and license terms.
Under copyright law, you default to having no permission to distribute copies of copyrighted works, such as software. The GPL says that the rightsholder is willing to grant blanket permission to redistribute to anyone willing to follow the terms of the license.
Active agent? Do you know how silly that sounds? She drove a convertible through the front gates every weekday. Not exactly a low profile for an "active agent".
This guy seems to have an opinion (or maybe an agenda) concerning licenses, but can't be bothered to know the difference between open source and free software. It is hardly something worthy of mention on Slashdot.
My mom doesn't know the difference either. Should I get her to write an essay and submit it?
Aren't there enough places on the web for this type of crap?
Let me say this once so we are all clear: the survival and progress of the human species is the ultimate in morality, and work towards those ends is the highest obligation of every member of the species. The struggle to make the most of our potential is the only proper way to show respect to our creator and to our ancestors, regardless of who you personally believe that creator to be.
If some people are so deranged that they think their own species is a curse upon the universe, they should have the decency to sneak off to kill themselves while the rest of us get on with things.
This is not news for nerds, and it certainly isn't stuff that matters. This is pathetic and not worthy of a headline.
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You can thank the WGA or World Canadian Bureau for this latest gap.
The media have been at best negligent in reporting on the economic issues at hand. At worst, they have been complicit.
The causes of the housing bubble and meltdown aren't a secret. The identities of the people that have been calling for investigation and oversight aren't secret. The names of the people that have blocked every attempt to address the problem for the last 5 or 6 years aren't secret.
Why does the news media consistently accept the bald lies of the people responsible? Why don't they bother telling people the truth?
Does anyone really believe that if the roles of the parties were reversed there wouldn't be serious investigation?
I've been running a multi-TB fileserver for a few years now. It is ext3 on LVM on RAID5 (MD).
My only complaint the whole time has been the block size in ext3. If ext3 had 1MB blocks, I would be VERY happy.
Who puts important mailboxes on a beta service? Sheesh.
Half of the world anyway.
Nope, sorry. Those sensors aren't looking for magnets, they are looking for iron.
The loops of wire are big air-cored inductors, they form part of a LC resonator with a specific frequency. When a chunk of iron gets near the loop, the quality of the inductor changes, which changes the resonant frequency.
I, for one, welcome our new^H^H^H^H 50 year old integrated circuit overlords.
Yeah, I do think that local school boards should be permitted to teach lies. They should be able to teach whatever the hell they want, in their district. They should be accountable only to the parents that elect them.
Hoyle makes testable predictions. Have the tests been done? Debunking has no place in science.
They all advertise longevity, and they all lie, the legal way; with statistics!
The whole Barracuda line has an advertised MTBF of 750,000 hours (yes, 85+ years, really) and an annualized failure rate of 0.34%. That is actually pretty much typical of hard drive advertising. Most people don't have the balls to advertise product lifetimes more than about twice as long as the basic technology has been in around, but hard drive makers don't even blink.
Of course, MTBF and AFR are actually technical terms, with very specific meanings that are wildly different from what you'd think they meant if you didn't already know better. I wonder if the marketing department is using the confusion between the proper and assumed meanings of those terms to, ahem, "let" people think that drives are more reliable than they really are...
There has been a lot of discussion of this type of stuff over at http://www.jerrypournelle.com/
What is the big deal? Can allowing local schools and local teachers to set their own policies be worse than centralized control? Say a handful of schools (or even a handful of states) taught intelligent design over evolution (or FSM over evolution). Would that really be the end of the world?
I think that people who get all worked up over this are 1) too optimistic about the ability of schools to shape children, and 2) too fond of the same centralized control that has destroyed the education system in this country.
The point is that this is going to happen, whether anyone likes it or not.
CPU clock speeds ran into the brick wall a few years ago. Here is a chart showing CPU clocks from 1993 to 2005.
There have been no major performance improvements from that direction for the last few years, and probably won't be any more without a major breakthrough in semiconductors.
Moore's law is about transistor counts, and shows no real signs of stopping. Every 18 to 24 months, we double the number of transistors on a given wafer/die. The transistion to 64 bit CPUs used a generation or two of those extra transistors, but we aren't likely to move to 128 bits soon. We are already pretty deep into the diminishing-returns curve for on-die cache.
What is left to consume those transistors?
More cores. Lots more cores. If you replace your CPU every 2 years, you can pretty much bet that each one you buy for the next decade or so will have twice as many cores as the one it is replacing.
And if developers and compilers get good at managing parallel code (and they have no choice in this), you can expect core counts to go up even faster than doubling ever couple of years.
Seriously?
When I need a laugh, I turn mine on and ask it to give me directions to places around my city, or directions to some of the small towns nearby.
On the other hand, the GPS box isn't a person, and it certainly isn't higher than me in a military chain of command. The real problem, as the summary mentions, is micromanagement. The guys on the ground need information so that they can make their own decisions, and they need us (yes, us, the people who aren't there) to back them up when they make reasonable decisions, even if they are sometimes wrong.
Ok, here's the thing...
After you've flipped through dozens of inboxes and home directories as part of your job, you know how pointless it is to do it for fun. People are boring. They have boring mail. They have boring files.
TINC!
Jargon
secret labs
Can be considered a spoof of the backbone cabal.
You might want to read the book, rather than that very short summary of it. You are right that it is essentially unfalsifiable, making it not-science. (Note that most history and anthropology are similarly not-science).
To quickly address some of the issues you mentioned:
There are essentially no groups left on the earth where the split mind is "normal", but there are isolated cases. Some forms of schizophrenia, for example, can be considered as very similar to the split mind. One big reason they are gone today is that the societies they could survive in are gone, replaced with our familiar conscious societies. Another reason is that they were regularly hunted down and killed (many examples in the old testament).
I think you underestimate the quantity and quality of very ancient literature. Take a look at the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature: http://www-etcsl.orient.ox.ac.uk/ Some of it is quite good, and most of it is very, very alien to modern readers. There are plenty of examples from other cultures, I just use that as an example because of my interest in cuneiform writings.
The hallucinations involved weren't like the impression of a drug trip that you see on TV, and they weren't random. Think of it like your intuition having a personality and shouting commands in your "ear". More like Baltar's visitors (from the new Battlestar Galactica series) than like Reefer Madness.
In that context, the hallucinations can be a good thing. What if the voice tells you the right time to strike? Or if it tells you to duck because it noticed a sabretooth tiger hunting you while you hunted the mammoth? But even that is misleading, because it assumes someone with our modern narritive/conscious mind with the addition of voices from the reasoning/analyzing portion of our brain.
Wait for second quarter when you can add a teleporter module.
Oops, should have been martian, not martial.
Are those earth years or martial years?
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1.4 W/kg is close to the FCC limit of 1.6 W/kg. The EU limit is 2.0 W/kg.
Look, it's really not that complicated: radiation increases the risk of cancer and birth defects, at any dose. The mechanisms are understood, and there have been tens of thousands of experiments confirming that. Trying to argue that this isn't the case is simply insane. And it doesn't matter what kind of radiation it is.
You are claiming LNT as fact, when it is actually just an assumption.
The mechanisms are NOT well understood at all, and there haven't even been dozens of useful experiments on long term / low dosage, maybe not even one, certainly not tens of thousands.
No, no, no, no. This is completely 100% wrong.
The GPL does not in any way depend on contracts. The GPL depends on copyright law and license terms.
Under copyright law, you default to having no permission to distribute copies of copyrighted works, such as software. The GPL says that the rightsholder is willing to grant blanket permission to redistribute to anyone willing to follow the terms of the license.
I was trying to read the history narrative under the translator.
Sadly, I lost interest at "Ancient Sumeria". Sumerians lived in Sumer, not Sumeria.
Active agent? Do you know how silly that sounds? She drove a convertible through the front gates every weekday. Not exactly a low profile for an "active agent".
This guy seems to have an opinion (or maybe an agenda) concerning licenses, but can't be bothered to know the difference between open source and free software. It is hardly something worthy of mention on Slashdot.
My mom doesn't know the difference either. Should I get her to write an essay and submit it?
Aren't there enough places on the web for this type of crap?
Let me say this once so we are all clear: the survival and progress of the human species is the ultimate in morality, and work towards those ends is the highest obligation of every member of the species. The struggle to make the most of our potential is the only proper way to show respect to our creator and to our ancestors, regardless of who you personally believe that creator to be.
If some people are so deranged that they think their own species is a curse upon the universe, they should have the decency to sneak off to kill themselves while the rest of us get on with things.
This is not news for nerds, and it certainly isn't stuff that matters. This is pathetic and not worthy of a headline.